LORIMIER LEAVES MARK ON FORMER TRADING POST

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Sunday, December 26, 1999

Established on the Mississippi River more than 200 years ago, Cape Girardeau has evolved from a tiny French trading post to a frontier settlement governed by a Spanish commandant to a thriving, culturally-rich community of approximately 40,000 residents in what local residents often say is the only "inland cape" in the world.

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